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On Tuesday 21 February Karolinska Institutet was visited by the Governor General of Canada David Johnston, his wife Sharon Johnston and the King and Queen of Sweden. The visit took place in conjunction with the state visit by the Governor General and his wife to Sweden at the invitation of the King.

The Consultative College gave the Nomination Committee strong support for proposing to the government that Ole Petter Ottersen be appointed as Karolinska Institutet’s new vice-chancellor. Following discussion and a secret ballot, the voting results were 85 in favour of Ottersen, two against and three abstentions.

The working memory and other cognitive functions in children and young people can be associated with how successful they are on the football pitch, a new study from Karolinska Institutet shows. Football clubs that focus too much on physical attributes therefore risk overlooking future stars.

A new study, in which researchers at Karolinska Institutet participated, has found that in mice adjusting levels of a compound called kynurenic acid can have significant effects on schizophrenia-like behavior. The study is published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

Five researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been awarded the Swedish Society for Medical Research’s (SSMF) four-year establishment grants on full-time or part-time. At most, the grants are worth a total of SEK 6.8 million each.

As reported earlier, renowned photographer Lennart Nilsson has passed away. He was born on 24 August 1922 and died on 28 January 2017. Lennart Nilsson began taking pictures at an early age and sold his first picture to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper at the age of 16. When he turned 90, he donated his photographic equipment to Karolinska Institutet, where he had worked since the 1970s.

World-famous photographer Lennart Nilsson has died at the age of 94. With a microscope and pioneering keyhole photography, he explored the human body down to its cells. Long before medical imagery came into its own, Lennart Nilsson was doing groundbreaking work in the field.